Her plays have been presented in New York at Daryl Roth's DR2, the Cherry Lane Theatre, Culture Project, Ensemble Studios Theatre, The Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, and HERE Arts Center among others. Regionally her works have been presented at The William Inge Center, Carnegie Mellon University, UT Dallas, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Cara Mia Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company Susanne Robert's Theatre, University of Iowa and Ohio University. Internationally her works have been presented at Theatre Royal Stratford East London, Finborough Theatre London,The Anarchist Theatre Festival Montreal, Gun Control Plays Project in Sydney Australia, and featured in the Verlag Textbook on American Drama in Germany. She has been published by the Playwrights Center for Women Writers, NoPassport Press and Amazon.

Selected Full Length Plays Include: "R Culture" (Kilroy’s Honorable Mention 2015, Workshop Production IRT Theater),Light of Night (Kilroy’s Nominee 2014, Best Of Plays and Playwrights 2015 Anthology Indie Theater Now, Rolling World Premier IATI Theater and Venus Theatre), Tiene Duende -It Has Soul (semifinalist MultiStages New Works Competition), COURTING (semifinalist O’Neill Playwrights Conference and Winner of Best New Play Stage Left Productions), BIOLIFE (semifinalists O’Neill Playwrights Conference and The Emerging Playwrights Prize at The Marin Theatre, Finalist for Mabou Mines Residency, Workshop Production The Chain Theatre), “The Wicked Son” (Top Three Best New Jewish Plays, Jewish Plays Project) among others. Celebrated One Act Plays include SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY wold premier production at National New Play Network Theatre Bishop Arts Center Austin and produced in NY by MultiStages Future is Female Festival, Between Here and There Produced at New Perspectives and Open Hydrant, Billboards Greatest Hits Produced at the High School for Performing Arts and Open Hydrant, Playing Kennedy Center Regional Finalist Produced at University of Iowa, Moontanner Girls and Unicorn Published by International Center for Women Playwrights Young Women's Anthology, Words of a Revolutionary Produced in the Anarchist Theatre Festival Montreal, Scars, WHERE THE HOPE GOES part of "After Orlando Collection" Produced in NY, Philedelphia, London, Chicago, Orlando, The Next Time- Published in the "Gun Control Plays Collection" and RaabitzTextbook on American Drama in Germany.

Awards include Special Effects Grant Metro Screen Australia for her film Amusement Bomber, BOOM! PRODUCTIONS Best TV Pilot for her Comedy WOMG, Semi-Finalist MADE IN NY WRITERS ROOM and Quarter-Finalist ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship for her Sci-Fi TV Pilot TALATRICS, Lennis J. Holm Playwriting Scholarship from University of Iowa Writers Workshop for her Honors Thesis One Woman, Fine Arts Grant Ohio University for Light of Night. Inductee Indie Theatre Hall of Fame and Kilroy’s Nominee Honorable Mention. Semifinalist The O'Neill Playwright's Conference, Finalist Mabou Mines Residency, Copeland is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, New York Women in Film and Television. She is an alumna of Stella Adler Studio Conservatory NYC, New Perspectives playlab, University of Iowa Theatre BA with Honors and a Minor in Dance, Ohio University MFA in Playwriting. Alumna of the New Play Lab at New Perspectives, Write Out Loud Playwright THEATRESPEAK, Internships with Seven Devils, Women's Project, and New Dramatists. Member of NYWIFT, LPTW, Literary Committee Barefoot Theatre and Films.